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and a GTX 1080 into a laptop along with all the hardware to cool it, you're going to give up something. The GX501's battery is roughly 50 watt-hours. Our review unit came with with a Samsung 512GB SM961 drive, which gave us reads in the.4GB/s range and writes in the.6GB/s range in Crystal Disk Mark. Unlike Cinebench R15, which takes less than a minute to render, Handbrake can take about 45 minutes to run on a quad-core CPU. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Performance The one test where the story got really interesting was Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, where the GX501 ran neck-and-neck with the much larger GT73VR. If your product cannot be repaired, you choose between a replacement or an Amazon Gift Card to the value of a replacement. More improvement comes from design features such as a bottom panel that opens up when the lid is opened. The result is probably the thing that will keep people tossing and turning at night, wondering whether a GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q is really the equal of a GeForce GTX 1080. . Cancel any time; full refund within 45 days, proportional thereafter. In the much Cinebench R15 test, the Kaby Lake laptops lead except for the Dell XPS 15, which is oddly slightly slower.

What's probably important to gamers is the panel's support for G-Syncand not a yawner 75GHz G-Sync panel, but an eye-catching 120Hz G-sync model. You don't just put a GeForce GTX 1080 into an 18mm-thick frame without a compromise, though, and Max-Q imposes a pretty steep one up front: clock speeds. A GTX 1080 with Max-Q has a base clock of 1,101MHz to 1,290MHz. But to get this much performance in a laptop this portable, some big compromises have been made.